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The dipole model of the main geomagnetic field sources has been developed by the authors for several years. At present, the model includes 13 sources that existed and continuously developed during the 20th century. It has been assumed that the main dipole motion can be related to the motion of the Earth’s axis of inertia. At the same time, the known sharp changes in the direction of this motion, the so-called “wanderings” of the axis of inertia coincide in time with a change in the coordinates of the exit point of the main dipole magnetic moment vector on the Earth’s surface, dependent mostly on changes in the vector inclination. The motion of the north magnetic pole has been studied based on the model. It has been obtained that the dynamics of the main dipole parameters and, mainly, a stable variation in the inclination of the magnetic moment vector are responsible for the westward pole motion. At the same time, the observed rapid northward motion of the pole is related to the time variations in the parameters of 12 sources approximating the so-called nondipole part of the main field.
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Original Russian Text © I.M. Demina, L.V. Nikitina, Yu.G. Farafonova, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 279–286.
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Demina, I.M., Nikitina, L.V. & Farafonova, Y.G. Motion of the north magnetic pole within the scope of the dynamic model of the main geomagnetic field sources. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 263–270 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207020168
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